Jean-Jacques Chifflet
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Jean-Jacques Chifflet (Chiflet) (Besançon, 1588 - 1660) was a French physician, antiquary and archaeologist.
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[edit] Life
He visited Paris and Montpellier, and travelled in Italy and Germany. He acted as court physician to Philip IV of Spain. He played a significant part in the controversy of the 1650s over Peruvian bark in treating malaria, publishing a sceptical pamphlet Pulvis Febrifugus Orbis Americani in 1653[1] after treating Archduke Leopold[2].
He began the publication of the texts of treaties[3].
[edit] Works
- Yesuntio, histoire de Besançon, Lyon, 1618 ;
- Porlus lecius Julius Caesaris (placed at Mardick), 1627 ;
- Blason des chevaliers de la Toison d'Or, 1632 ;
- Recueil des Traittez de Paix, Treves et Neutralité entre les couronnes d'Espagne et de France(1643)
- Political writings upholding the rights of Spain and Austria against France
[edit] Family
Sons:
- Jules Chifflet, jurist and historian, wrote Breviarium ordinis velleris aurei, Antwerp 1652
- Jean Chifflet, priest and historian, wrote on Pope Joan
He was a nephew of Claude Chifflet.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Cinchona. U. S. Cinchona, Cinch. [Peruvian Bark, Yellow Peruvian Bark]. Cinchona Rubra, Red Cinchona. | Henriette's Herbal Homepage
- ^ Andreas-Holger Maehle, Drugs on Trial: Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the Eighteenth Century, pp. 226-9.
- ^ David C. Douglas (1939), English Scholars,p.290.
[edit] Source
- Dictionnaire Bouillet
